Guide for sewing-machines.



No. 663,908. Patented Dec. l8, I900.

' e. w. LASCH.

GUIDE FOR SEWING MACHINES.

rAbpliu-ation filed May 18. 1900.1

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GEORGE WM. LASOH, OF

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

GUIDE FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,908, dated December 18, 1900.

l Application filed May 18, 1900. Serial No. 1 7,089. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE WM. LASCH, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gages for Sewing- Machines, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to gages for sewingmachines; and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class which is simple in construction and operation and which may be attached to any sewing-machine for use in families or in manufacturing establishments where edge-stitching on coats, vests, overcoats, cloaks, or any other article of clothing is necessary.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which- Figure 1 is a side View of the bed-plate and the main arm of a sewing-machine which sup-. ports the needle-bar and other parts connected therewith and showing my improved gage in position; Fig. 2, a plan yiew of the gage detached; Fig. 3, a side view thereof, and Fig. 4 a section on the line 4 4. of Fig. 2.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts of my improvemen t are designated by the same letters of reference in each of the views, and in said drawings I have shown at A the bed-plate of an ordinary sewing-machine, with which is connected the usual main arm B, which carries the needle-barand other parts, the needle-bar being shown at O, the needle at D, and the presser-foot at E, and in the practice of my invention I provide a gage of the class and for the purpose described comprising two similar flat bars F and G, which are pivotally connected at H and one of which-that designated by the reference-letter F-is longer than the other and provided at its free end with a transverse gage-flange f. The bars G and F are comparatively thin, and the bar G, which is shorter than the bar F, is provided with a longitudinal slot g, preferably near the inner edge thereof, and mounted on said bar G is a slide K, provided at its outer edge with a downwardly-directed flange 7c and at its free end with a transverse gage-flange W. The gage-flangesf and 70 are longer than the transverse widths of the parts F and G, as shown in Fig. 2, and the flange k is preferably formed by curving the end of the part K upwardly, outwardly, and downwardly, as shown in Fig. 3.

A set-screw L is passed through a slot 70 formed in the part K, which corresponds with the slot g in the part G, and said set-screw passes into the bed-plate A in connecting the gage with said bed-plate, and by means of this construction the part K is free to slide on the part G and may be adjusted thereon as desired. It will be understood, as hereinbefore described, that this gage is intended for use in making edge-stitching on coats, cloaks, and other garments, and the part F or the gage-flange f thereof is intended to regulate the distance of the first seam or line of stitching from the edge of the garment and the part K or the flange k thereof to regulate the distance of the second or inner line of stitching or seam from the first.

In using this device for making the outer or edge line stitching when the operator comes to an irregular or V-shaped space in the edge of the garment the arm or bar F is swung outward and the garment guided by hand until the irregular or V-shaped space is passed, after which said arm or barF is swung back into position and the stitching proceeds and the first or edge line of stitching will be at an equal distance from the edge around the entire garment. The second or inner line of stitching is regulated by the part K, and this second or inner line may thus be gaged at any desired distance from the first or edge line of stitching.

This device may be used, as hereinbefore stated, on any kind of a sewing-machine and on a two-needle machine, as well as on a single-needle machine, and said device is also simple in construction and durable and may be used by any one who is capable of using a sewing-machine.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A gage for sewing-machines, comprising two flat bars pivotally connected at one end, and adapted to be folded together and to lie in the same horizontal plane, one of which Vided with a longitudinal slot, and the slide being provided at its end with a transverse gage-flange, and a set-screw which is adapted to be passed through said slots, substantially as shown and described.

2. A gage for sewing-machines, comprising two flat bars pivotally connected at one end, and adapted to be folded together and to lie in the same horizontal plane, and one of which of May, 1900.

is longer than the other, and provided at its free end "with a transverse gage-flange, the shorter bar being provided with a longitudinally-adj ustable slide which is mounted thereon, and provided at its outer end with a transverse gage-flange, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 9th day H GEORGE WM. LASOH.' Witnesses:

JACOB ALBERT,

ANTHONY V. THOMSON. 

